Review of Smart Array P440 on a server HP ProLiant DL160 Gen9 using iLO – create, modify, delete array and view controller settings

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SCREENSHOT 21) Smart Array P440 – Create Logical Drive – SSD Over Provisioning Optimization

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HP ProLiant DL160 Gen9

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SCREENSHOT 22) Smart Array P440 – Logical Drive was successfully created

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HP ProLiant DL160 Gen9

SCREENSHOT 23) Smart Array P440 – Logical Drive – Migrate RAID/Stip Size

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HP ProLiant DL160 Gen9

SCREENSHOT 24) Smart Array P440 – Logical Drive – Migrate RAID/Stip Size 2

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HP ProLiant DL160 Gen9

SCREENSHOT 25) The migration process has been executed and will be queued after the old tasks if any.

This is an information screen, just click “Finish”. Note you will not lose your data during or after the migration.

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Smart Array P440 – Logical Drive – migration has been executed

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SCREENSHOT 26) Click on Smart Array P440 and then on the right click on “View all status messages” to view the 3 notification.

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Smart Array P440 – View status messages

SCREENSHOT 27) Total of three messages are available – two are Information Status Messages and one is the progress of the transformation of the RAID 1+0 to RAID 5.

Click “Close” to exit this screen.

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Smart Array P440 – Status Messages

SCREENSHOT 28) To delete an array select the controller Smart Array P440, the Array group – Array A and click on “Delete Array”.

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Smart Array P440 – Array A – Delete Array

SCREENSHOT 29) A confirmation is required upon an array deletion.

And red notification text saying: “Deleting the selected array will cause all of its drives to be deleted! All data on the logical drives will be lost!”. So be careful here! You could lose all your data!

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Smart Array P440 – Array A – Delete Array – Confirmation

SCREENSHOT 30) The array has been deleted successfully.

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Smart Array P440 – Array A – Delete Array – confirmed

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